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market citizen

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈmɑːrkɪt ˈsɪtɪzn/

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noun

Meaning 1

The privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

Calque of German Marktbürger.